Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, and Christopher Walken have all signed on for The Irishman, based on the story of Danny Greene.
Greene was a violent Irish-American gangster who competed with the Italian mob in 1970s Cleveland and ended up provoking a countrywide turf war that crippled the Mafia. Stevenson will play Greene. Walken will play the loan shark and nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer is cast as a Cleveland police detective who befriends Greene. Jonathan Hensleigh, who co-wrote and directed “The Punisher,” will direct the action film. He and Jeremy Walters (“Dali”) wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by the book “To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia” by Rick Porrello. [Reuters]
Seems like every mob movie since The Departed has been about the Irish mob, and how they tricked the Italian mob, or killed someone in the Italian mob, or got drunker than the Italian mob, or were more Bawston than the Italian mob. And it’s all a big excuse for the 12th generation Irish douchebags in the audience to celebrate like a Boondock Saints marathon on St. Paddy’s Day. Please. The Irish are just jealous of our bigger penises and better jewelry.
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Val Kilmer prepared for the role by eating at McDonald’s.
Kilmer’s only in it for the shepherd’s pie.
I’ve got a crisp fiver that says I know which one’s gonna run naked through the set.
Oh please Italians may have more girth its a matter of taste, we Irish have more length and vein-age, and we shoot bigger as well.
I think “Cleveland Police Officer” is the perfect description for Val Kilmer’s current point in life.
Val Kilmer signed on only cause the studio promised him another sweaty half nude volleyball scene with Walken and Stevenson.
“Vein-age”?! Fuck Mike, I’ll take an Italian Stallion over that ANY DAY.
Kilmer’s next role will be as a woman from Milwaukee.
oh yeah well ours shrivel up faster than a potato in 1846…
I’m excited to see the healing progress of Kilmer’s elbow tumor. It was looking pretty rough when he valeted my car at Maggiano’s last year.
Director: “And, ACTION!”
Christopher Walken: “I’m… ConnorMccloud… oftheklan McCloud.”
Director: “Cut. Chris – Please, no ad libbing here. Action!”
Walken: “There… Canbeonly one.”
In a rare act of social consciousness Hollywood will go green with this movie by releasing it straight-to-DVD.
Al: Thanks for the reference page on the last topic.
Fist: if it were PMS time, I woulda told you to go fuck yourself.
Count your blessings (yw)
Frosted Lucky Charms
He’ll blow your ass to pieces.
I find veinage is /s/grossly underappreciated/s/ gross.
okei you know what fuck you guys, no, I don’t know how to do little tricks like strikethrough and block…
I’ll be here in the corner with gramps.
*GodDAMN you smell funny.
Irish anteaters are way douchier than Italian anteaters.
Irish mobsters sleep with the fishes and chips.
Id, >strike<
HAHAHA! VaLince is all pissy cuz after 80 years of glorified bullshit about the Dago mob the Mc’s are getting their turn.
Hey! Vinky’s a wop, they talk with their hands…bloggers talk with their hands…Mangina is a blogging guido talking with his hands… [simple little Irish mind explodes]
Irish mobsters kill their enemies with potato guns.
The beef is over the Italians being after the Irish’s pot of gold to melt it down and make an endless supply of necklaces and pinky rings.
In a surprising show of racial harmony, Kilmer’s elbow will be played by Andy Garcia’s twin.
Italians dip Irishmen into a vat of hair grease to get them to talk.
New up, and I was just pulling out my bag of pasta belly jokes…
If Walken mentions cowbell even once in this movie, I will irish cream my pants
i imagine this is the one and only time ill log on here to make a comment as most of them seem so bizarre theyre not even worth reading, we’ve had a good 50 years of movies glorifying the italian mafia with only 1 in 25 movies actually painting them in an overall negative light. I am Irish and very proud to be but I have zero tolerance for organized crime. Danny Greene was as much a scumbag as Jimmy Conway, Vito Corleone or anyone else hollywood has fobbed off as having a caring side. The fact that finally there are some non italian crime films made these days that are in some way associated with the mob seems to piss a lot of people off. The italians (real ones) were never proud of the scum who became block buster icons and neither would any irish person in the same context.
No film has ever really held any accurate truth so I can only hope this film is another entertaining crime flick and thats about it. As for the term ‘Irish mafia’? Do i even need to get started? I’m sure anyone with a brain cell will get what I mean by that, it makes as much sense as the crenshaw mafia, the polish mafia, the lithuanean mafia or the mafia from mars. The term mafia is not a generalisation nor does it mean organized crime figure etc… thats my two cents and I hope that anyone with some reason reading this doesnt see me as being ignorant or over opinionated, free speech yada yada yada…